Be The Good with Kate

If you are looking for an 'excuse' (read: purpose) to travel, this is the episode for you. Angela Gillmeister once lived FOR her next vacation. Now she is a custom vacation designer, but specifically, she is here for women who want to find their 'whys' and the purpose in their travels. Angela focuses on “travel play[ing] a role in enhancing happiness rather than being put on a pedestal as the brin...

Is it possible to live a more sustainable life in the midst of our fast-paced world? Answering that question and more today on Be The Good with Kate with the founder of No Trace Shop, Liz McDade.  **Welcome to Be The Good with Kate, the show where guests leave you inspired to uncover your passions, and discover tangible ways to make a difference along the way. ** Some of what we talk about on this...

This is one of those “my mind is blown” episodes. Today on Be The Good with Kate, Danielle Fette shares about FetTech, a company that is healing patients through regenerative medicine. I learned so much listening to Danielle in this jam-packed episode, and while I continue to be frustrated by our medical system, it is people like Danielle and her husband who give me hope in solutions from medical...

A therapeutic horse riding center. Simply visualizing this place makes me feel more peaceful. Today’s guest on Be The Good with Kate, Kathryn Yuma, works with Hearts & Horses Therapeutic Riding Center in Loveland, CO. **Welcome to Be The Good with Kate, the show where guests leave you inspired to uncover your passions, and discover tangible ways to make a difference along the way. ** We talk:...

A moment for author Julia Cameron today... First, thank you to all the guests who inspired us this season, and as a bonus, shed a light on my new/old state of New Jersey. As return listeners know, I am from New Jersey, left it for over a decade, and celebrated coming back by highlighting people doing good in this small but mighty state of NJ all season here on Be The Good with Kate. Along this the...

How do you go about creating an entire school from scratch? And why would you do it? Why do parents need to focus on the what, why, and how their children are learning as young as preschool? This kindergarten teacher-turned-school founder, coach, and author joins us today to share a bit about all of the above. Danielle Lindner is the founder of London Day School in Florham Park, NJ, which is worki...

Every single one of us came from a mother. There’s no way around that entry into the world. Yet why has maternal health taken such a backseat in our society for so long? People like today’s guest on Be The Good with Kate are working to change that. **Welcome to Be The Good with Kate, the show where guests leave you inspired to uncover your passions, and discover tangible ways to make a difference...

Today on Be The Good with Kate: Your Kind of Cuts, a sensory friendly barbershop located in Nutley, NJ.  **Welcome to Be The Good with Kate, the show where guests leave you inspired to uncover your passions, and discover tangible ways to make a difference along the way. ** One, of many, points that sticks out to me in this episode, is how Billy did not want to focus on how a child was ‘different’,...

Today’s guest looks beyond physical health in his practice as a doctor of physical therapy and board-certified orthopedic specialist working each day to get active adults back to doing the things they love to do without pain meds, injections, or surgery; even if they've tried PT before.  Dr. Paul Kochoa says, “My mission is to change how people think about physical therapy - that it's more than th...

Now it's on you to determine The Why :) A mini episode of Be The Good with Kate diving into the benefits of giving back: for those you help AND for yourself. Check out all the episodes wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow your passions. Help others along the way.

Today let’s look at how doctors and patients interact– and further, how we interact with all those we encounter.  Dr. Nidal Humoee is a pediatric hospitalist at Hunterdon Medical Center, as well as an author, focusing on relationships and attitude. He explains: “A relationship is a two-way interaction. Each party bears responsibility for his own intention and attitude.” Originally born in Syria, D...

Today’s guest is a registered dietician who is passionate about helping women, particularly moms, heal disordered eating and nourish their bodies and their families so they can lead more fulfilling lives. **Welcome to Be The Good with Kate, the show where guests leave you inspired to uncover your passions, and discover tangible ways to make a difference along the way. Here we talk to individuals w...

Welcome to Be The Good with Kate, the show where guests leave you inspired to uncover your passions, and discover tangible ways to make a difference along the way. Here we talk to individuals who are doing just that, individuals from all walks of life and industries. While we have featured guests from Bali to Utah, Florida to Japan, and just about everywhere in between, this season we are going ub...

What’s ‘good’ in NJ?! Helping the brain through music and community, then diving into the alignment issues that might be causing you pain. If you’ve been tuning in to these last few episodes, you know we are currently rebroadcasting a few episodes in between seasons. And we are currently revisiting a few episodes featuring residents of New Jersey, as the upcoming ‘mini season’ of Be The Good with...

What's 'good' in NJ?! Helping to reset the body's stressors, then how to tackle homeownership. If you’ve been tuning in recently to Be The Good with Kate, you know we are currently rebroadcasting a few episodes in between seasons. These next few episodes will be moving us into what you’ll be hearing more of in the next season of Be The Good with Kate… Folks doing good in my home st...

If you are tuning into this podcast for the first time, welcome. Be The Good with Kate is all about highlighting individuals who have overcome obstacles, looked inward, taken the time and effort and fails and successes to find their passions, follow them, and help others along the way. This rebroadcast is from our Countdown to 100 series, where we revisited some of the earliest guests to hear wher...

Connecting cultures through the universal language of dance with Mickela, and Finding your passion of sharing a laugh in your 60s with Shelley... Today's rebroadcast pair on Be The Good with Kate! I’ve been feeling out of touch with a lot of the ‘arts scene’ these past months, so I thought I’d rebroadcast a few of Be The Good with Kate’s arts-focused episodes in case any of you are craving an...

International Dance Day is at the end of this month, so let’s start the month with this fabulous episode of Be The Good with Kate featuring the four-time Emmy® Award-winning Host, Executive Producer, Creator, and namesake of "Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi", a PBS travel series following Mickela’s adventures as she experiences the world one DANCE at a time.   Mickela completely embodies...

A spiritual coach and intuitive guide…what is that? Let’s find out on this week’s episode of Be The Good with Kate.  “Sasha Lipskaia, M.A. ICF, is an intuitive guide, spiritual coach, and sacred intimacy mentor to soul-driven leaders and light-workers, who want to experience deeper love and devotion, serve their higher purpose, and embody their worth with power, integrity, and faith. Sasha's w...

Let’s take a walk in this week’s guest’s shoes: It’s 1969, you are a child who immigrates to America from Hong Kong. Your parents, six siblings, and yourself move to LA’s Chinatown and are faced with gang wars, language barriers, and setbacks… Yet you take on your parents’ grit and work ethic, get into college, find success in work, and end up mayor of a city. Today on Be The Good with Kate: Dr. E...

Something I love about interviewing guests for Be The Good with Kate: the different ways guests describe concepts. Sophie Jacobs tackles the internal vs external factors that impact us each day, with a focus on INTUITION. And how NOT following our intuition can present itself in our bodies.  Sophie quit a high-profile startup job to live at a Buddhist monastery, was ordained as a Buddhist Nun, the...

Antonio Garrido speaks to me from France about leadership and so much more on today’s episode of Be The Good with Kate. He is the author of My Daily Leadership: A Powerful Roadmap for Leadership Success, and Founder & President of My Daily Leadership, a leadership development organization with a mission to inspire one million of the world’s best leaders to reach their full potential. One of An...

Looking at someone who appears confident and successful, we often have no idea of the stories behind them. Or the horrors they may have endured to get to where they are today. Jennifer Ramirez has gone through things no one should ever have to encounter, yet how she moved through her past to build the work she does today is incredible. Not only has she created a nonprofit to help others, but she c...

Things I love about this week’s episode of Be The Good with Kate: -Guest Patti Meyer’s realization that what she thought was a calling to be a psychologist was actually melding her passions for business and helping others that brought her to owning her own business -Surrounding yourself with people who know more than you do. Accepting one another’s strengths. Saying you don’t know when you don’t k...

The good news today is about your body working better for you. This week on Be The Good with Kate, I get to dive into my love of how the human body works– and uncovering ways to make it work better. Meet Jonathan FitzGordon, creator of The Rejuvenation Movement Method, which aims to help people age gracefully and live pain free lives. Jonathan helps people who have been dealing with chronic pain d...